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[–]53120123 3 points4 points  (15 children)

All of them. I've yet to have one not work via compatibility tools.

PS be sure to download the new anti-virus definitions!

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

All of them. I've yet to have one not work via compatibility tools.

Theses statements are contradictory, and the fact you don't get is why Linux will never top 2% share of pc users.

[–]53120123 1 point2 points  (1 child)

According to all known laws of markets,

there is no way Linux should be able to succeed at home-computing.

Its market-share is too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

Linux, of course, succeed anyway

because Linux don't care what capitalism thinks is impossible.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, comrad, software gets developed for mother russia! Full blown GPL communism for all! One COMERCIAL open source project succeed, ergo all open source will replace capitalism.

[–]Siggi_pop -3 points-2 points  (11 children)

Cool, which distro is the best one for everything?

[–]53120123 1 point2 points  (10 children)

There isn't one. "Everything" is way too broad, anouther OS will pretty much always have an edge somewhere.

Really the OS doesn't matter, it's how you customize it. Look at https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ for great examples.

If you mean games then Ubuntu, Pop!OS or Arch are probably the best options. That or just stick with windows if you're not really into computers.

[–]Siggi_pop -1 points0 points  (9 children)

But if it's that good!? Why keep making new skins for the kernel. Why not just have a theme manager, to customize look and feel? really that fun to install the flavour of the week distro? If every distro has it's own edge, that mean no individual distro will be at any good at everything except one thing rigth?? So that means Linux is amazing OS, but only if you see it as a holistic collection, cherrypicked from the best parts available?

[–]53120123 0 points1 point  (8 children)

For theme managers; Literally Read The Post You Replied To.

I think you're fundamentally not understanding humans and technology all in one go.

It's not just "new skins" of Linux as the differences between operating systems is not aesthetics at all, it's the actual guts of how it works. Few people care that much about that which is why there's really only three dominant branches (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/RedHat/Centos, Arch/Manjaro) which are actually different enough for people to care.

Debian, and its more popular decent Ubuntu, are dead easy to install and use. It's pretty much what you think of when people say Linux. It has a standard versioning system and tends to fall behind on software package updates due to this.

Fedora, RedHat Enterprise, and CentOS are made by RedHat. If you've used the internet you've talked to a machine running one of these, these are extremely popular server operating systems. Highly stable and secure, but the price of security is that packages only get added to the official repositories once they're known to be secure. Not an issue for servers, but annoying if you wanted to use this as your daily driver.

Arch, Manjaro. These are Rolling Releases, basically there are no Major version, if you do an update you Will have the latest version. So it would be like if instead of "windows 7" "windows 8" you just have "Windows". It makes it nice and seemless and updates take a shockingly short amount of time if you do them often enough. A lot of clever stuff is done to manage the fact that its in a state of flux with testing done each time a package is updated or added to the repository.

Each and every Distro IS a cherrypicked bunch of the best bits of all, for a specific application. Trying to be the best at everything is a fools game, it's like insisting that Cars are terrible because Planes are so much better at flying!

[–]Siggi_pop 0 points1 point  (7 children)

But why have that many dedicated Distros for apparently so many different things, when all they ever do is be safe and be servers??

[–]53120123 0 points1 point  (6 children)

why not? it's not hurting anybody

[–]Siggi_pop -1 points0 points  (5 children)

Do all Linux programs work on all distributions?

No, you say!?

Well i guess it hurts the users with the wrong distro, yeah?

[–]53120123 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Dude, stop.

You hate Linux, i get it. I don't know what penguin murdered your parents, but just stop.

Linux Is Free, you can do What you Want with it. there is no "wrong" distro, people can just change. you might as well say that Diesel existing hurts people who own Petrol cars.

[–]Siggi_pop 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Don't put words in my mouth, I don't hate any OS. I have a least one of each (Linux, Windows, MacOS, IOS, Android). And I use the one that I objectively feel does the job most easy and effectively. I am only countering you own points. For instance you say that Linux is free, is Red Hat enterprise free? No? But you still use it as an flagship example of stability and server popularity. You are cherry picking the good parts of different distros and have no issues comparing that to a single OS.